The Challenge of a Challenge

In the poem "The Swimmer's Moments" the poet, Margaret Avison, suggests that when people are faced with challenges some people will strive to be their best and will conquer their challenge, and others will not try at all. Avison uses many symbols to show the reader how she preceives the challenge of a challenge.

When Margaret Avison writes, "The mysterious, and more ample, further waters." She is suggesting that the brave few who face the challenge are going to gain knowledge, self confidence, personal growth and they have acheived victory over the challenge that stood before them. Similarly, in the line "For them an eternal boon of privacy." The poet als...